[Voyage-linux] readonly/readwrite filesystem

[Pascal de Bruijn]

Well there be a tarball like the ISO, soon?

Regards,
Pascal de Bruijn

On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 15:57 +0800, Kim-man 'Punky' TSE wrote:
> No, not the same.  But you may check, the kernel may support it.
> 
> Pascal de Bruijn wrote:
> > Does this:
> >
> > http://www.voyage.hk/download/voyage/voyage-current.tar.gz
> >
> > Also use unionfs?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Pascal de Bruijn
> >
> > On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 15:35 +0800, Kim-man 'Punky' TSE wrote:
> >   
> >> Hi Pascal,
> >>
> >> Down the voyage-current.iso and give it a try:
> >>     http://www.voyage.hk/download/ISO/voyage-current.iso
> >>
> >> This is a demostration of live CD concept which will probably be 
> >> deployed in 0.3.  The live CD is squashfs + unionfs.  The final 0.3 
> >> distro would be similar. 
> >>
> >> I do not finalize the way it goes.  The current kernel in my development 
> >> already support squashfs and unionfs, and I need more feedback and input 
> >> on this. 
> >>
> >> - Punky
> >>
> >> Pascal de Bruijn wrote:
> >>     
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> I noticed the ro/rw problems has been solved by symlinks.
> >>>
> >>> Has anybody considered using tmpfs and unionfs? For example:
> >>>
> >>> /dev/hda1  ->  /      (ro)
> >>> tmpfs      ->  /rw    (rw)
> >>> unionfs    ->  /rw,/
> >>>
> >>> This would mean the whole filesystem would be writable, yet /dev/hda1
> >>> would be read only. All changes to / would be written to /rw, instead
> >>> of /dev/hda1.
> >>>
> >>> Using a script /rw could be synced to, say for example /dev/hda2, a
> >>> seperate partition.
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>> Pascal de Bruijn
> >>>
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >>     
> 
> 
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